{"id":31705,"date":"2023-09-07T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-wide-world-of-stanton-englehart\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:37:41","slug":"the-wide-world-of-stanton-englehart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-wide-world-of-stanton-englehart\/","title":{"rendered":"The wide world of Stanton Englehart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stanton Englehart\u2019s painting \u201cApril\u201d will be on exhibit at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum. (Courtesy of Sharon Englehart)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing the Southwest has, it\u2019s expansive views aplenty. And a local artist who captured those massive vistas was landscape painter Stanton Englehart, who founded Fort Lewis College\u2019s art department in 1961 and was a professor there for more than 30 years. He died in 2009.<\/p>\n

An exhibit of Stanton\u2019s work \u2013 \u201cStanton Englehart: My Calendar\u201d \u2013 will kick off with an opening reception Friday (Sept. 8) at the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum in Dolores. The show will be on display through December 2024.<\/p>\n

The exhibit will include pieces from Englehart\u2019s \u201cCalendar Series\u201d as well as \u201cHome\u201d landscapes and \u201ca really cool assortment of mixed-media work,\u201d said his daughter, Sharon Englehart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe show will include the 12 \u2018Calendar pieces\u2019 \u2013 that\u2019s over 170 feet of paintings,\u201d she said. \u201cIt includes two, four-part paintings, each one of those are about 16 feet wide, when they\u2019re put together to center panels and then to end panels \u2026 called \u2018Home.\u2019\u2019 Then there\u2019s 18 mixed-media paintings. And there are two more large oil paintings that we just put up because we just like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the show features the pieces from \u201cCalendar,\u201d Sharon said there\u2019s enough variety in the exhibit to keep people from looking at just one type of work. In fact, she said, because both she and her father were educators, there\u2019s the hope that audiences, especially the younger ones, will get something out of the paintings.<\/p>\n

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WHAT: Stanton Englehart: My Calendar exhibition. WHEN: Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday (Sept. 8). Exhibit on display through December 2024. WHERE: Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum, 27501 CO-184, Dolores. MORE INFORMATION: Visit https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5ezmdtuf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cEducation was always a really important part of what he did and what I did \u2026 I\u2019ve taught art for 33 years,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m really hoping that groups of kids can go in there. \u2026 You can look big but also look close, and I think it would be really interesting for kids that live over in that area to see how that landscape is interpreted and go home and paint their own little masterpieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that idea of looking big while looking close to Englehart\u2019s landscapes that still resonate with people today, especially given the changing nature of land in the Southwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad (grew) up over by Lewis, and I think grew up very aware of the natural environment. His dad was a dairy farmer,\u201d Sharon said. \u201cHe used nature as a way to deal with, I don\u2019t know if he was ADHD or what they would have called it back then, but he was definitely a person that was in motion all the time. He spent a tremendous amount of time outdoors and observing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Englehart\u2019s paintings are ready to hang for the upcoming show. (Courtesy of Sharon Englehart)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

As a child, he was fascinated by little crop-dusting planes that would fly overhead and kind of draw a line across the sky, she said. And if you look closely, these horizon lines are present in a number of his paintings. \u201cGrowing up, he saw fencelines and was very sensitive in the \u201960s and \u201970s to how land was being subdivided and changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Add to that the way people\u2019s perception of space and time is rapidly changing because things like the internet and climate change are shrinking our world. \u201cWe just don\u2019t have that post-Depression, agricultural view of time and space anymore,\u201d Sharon said, adding that\u2019s what keeps people coming back to Englehart\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to just come up with one takeaway about this whole process, it\u2019s when artists are working, I think they always wonder, will the work survive past me? Will it have meaning significance, relevance, beyond just me as a person and all of my connections and relationships?\u201d she said. \u201cHe had a lot of that in the community. And I think that work is even more relevant and significant now than it was back then. Particularly this \u2018Calendar Series.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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